ICT adoption and diffusion patterns in Latin American agriculture

Includes bibliography

The digital economy for structural change and equality

Includes bibliography.

Information technologies in trade facilitation and their use by msmes

This issue of the Bulletin is based on the material presented at the seminar Information Technology for Development of Small and Medium-sized Exporters in East Asia and Latin America, which was held on 23 and 24 November 2004 at the headquarters of ECLAC in Santiago, Chile. The seminar was part of the project entitled Comparative Study on East Asian and Latin American IT Industry, financed by the thematic fund for information and communication technologies (ICT) for development of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and has been carried out in close collaboration with the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), an organization that belongs to the Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO). This article contains a discussion of the concepts, definitions and standards associated with electronic commerce, as well as the opportunities to be seized and the challenges to be met so that MSMEs can expand their electronic business.

Information and communication technologies for disaster risk management in the Caribbean

Includes bibliography.

ICT and gender

Information and communications technologies: essential tools for achieving gender equality. By UN-WOMEN, Andean Sub-Regional Office. -- ���Training telecentre operators as technology leaders in their social environment is an ongoing task���, interview with Olga Paz Mart��nez. -- For an information society with gender equity. By Dafne Sabanes Plou. -- ���Including women in ICT can make a big difference in narrowing the digital divide���, interview with Zoraida Franco. -- ���We see the potential of ICT for rearranging family communication networks���, interview with Juan Eduardo Rojas .-- ���ICT might be the most tangible tool we have right now to fight gender discrimination���, interview with Martin Hilbert.

New trends in ICT

NFC technology: progress, obstacles and forecasts, report .-- Downloads of records and books are increasing, report .-- Broadband promotion law in Peru, interview to Roberto Ortiz , Ministry of Transport and Communications of Peru .-- ���What Rio has done is truly ground-breaking���, interview to Guruduth Banavar, IBM .-- ���The idea is to enable people who have a device but no Internet to connect securely and free of charge��� interview to Oliver Fl��gel, Digital Development Chile .-- ���The advent of big data makes communications infrastructure even more important���, interview to Jos�� Miguel Piquer, INRIA Chile.

Information and communication technology for disaster risk management in the Caribbean: subregional solutions to the challenge of limited human resource capacity

This document was adapted from a paper originally presented to the 8th Annual Caribbean Conference of Comprehensive Disaster Management, held in Montego Bay, Jamaica in December, 2013. It summarizes several activities that ECLAC has undertaken to assess the current state of information and communications technology (ICT) in the field of disaster risk management (DRM) as practiced in the Caribbean. These activities included an in-depth study that encompassed a survey of disaster management organizations in the region, an Expert Group Meeting attended by the heads of several national disaster offices, and a training workshop for professionals working in DRM in the Caribbean. One of the notable conclusions of ECLAC���s investigation on this topic is that the lack of human capacity is the single largest constraint that is faced in the implementation of ICT projects for DRM in the Caribbean. In considering strategies to address the challenge of limited human capacity at a regional level, two separate issues are recognized ��� the need to increase the ICT capabilities of disaster management professionals, and the need to make ICT specialists available to disaster management organizations to advise and assist in the implementation of technology-focused projects. To that end, two models are proposed to engage with this issue at a regional level. The first entails the establishment of a network of ICT trainers in the Caribbean to help DRM staff develop a strategic understanding of how technology can be used to further their organizational goals. The second is the development of ���Centres of Excellence��� for ICT in the Caribbean, which would enable the deployment of specialized ICT expertise to national disaster management offices on a project-by-project basis.

Mexico: industrial policies and the production of information and communication technology goods and services

This study investigates the extent to which the digital boom has had repercussions on productive activity, in terms of both manufacturing (ict goods) and services (ict services), in addition to its potential ramifications in the rest of the Mexican economy. Input-output matrices are used and compared to those of Brazil and the United States. Mexico has fallen behind, particularly in the production of ict goods, and the productive chains of this activity have weakened. The ict services sector offers much greater potential than has been exploited thus far, with the advantage that it involves comparatively more value added and has major diversification possibilities. It is considered essential to find more effective industrial policies targeted on the ict goods and services sectors; but the experience of countries such as Brazil, which have applied more proactive approaches with mixed results, suggests that this will be challenging.

Elementos de interoperabilidade na cataloga����o descritiva: configura����es contempor��neas para a modelagem de ambientes informacionais digitais

Funda����o de Amparo �� Pesquisa do Estado de S��o Paulo (FAPESP)

Sistema de informa����o sobre viol��ncia urbana (SiViU) como apoio �� tomada de decis��o em pol��ticas p��blicas de cidades m��dias

P��s-gradua����o em Geografia - IGCE

QoS management in smart grids: a Markovian approach

In Smart Grids, a variety of new applications are available to users of the electrical system (from consumers to the electric system operators and market operators). Some applications such as the SCADA systems, which control generators or substations, have consequences, for example, with a communication delay. The result of a failure to deliver a control message due to noncompliance of the time constraint can be catastrophic. On the other hand, applications such as smart metering of consumption have fewer restrictions. Since each type of application has different quality of service requirements (importance, delay, and amount of data to transmit) to transmit its messages, the policy to control and share the resources of the data communication network must consider them. In this paper Markov Decision Process Theory is employed to determine optimal policies to explore as much as possible the availability of throughput in order to transmit all kinds of messages, considering the quality of service requirements defined to each kind of message. First a non-preemptive model is formulated and after that a preemptive model is derived. Numerical results are used to compare FIFO, non-preemptive and preemptive policies.

Detec����o de potenciais corticais antecipat��rios em sinais de eletroencefalografia (EEG) durante a condu����o de carros

O reconhecimento da inten����o do condutor a partir de sinais de eletroencefalografia (EEG) pode ser ��til no desenvolvimento de interfaces c��rebro computador (BCI) para serem usadas em sinergia com ve��culos inteligentes. Isso pode ser ben��fico para melhorar a qualidade de intera����o entre o motorista e o carro, por exemplo, fornecendo uma resposta do carro inteligente alinhada com a inten����o do motorista. Neste estudo, considera-se a antecipa����o como sendo o estado cognitivo que leva a a����es especificas durante a condu����o de um autom��vel. Portanto, propomos investigar a presen��a de padr��es antecipat��rios em sinais EEG durante a condu����o de ve��culos para determinar duas a����es especif��cas (1) virar �� esquerda e (2) virar �� direita, alguns milissegundos antes que tais a����es aconte��am. Um protocolo experimental foi proposto para gravar sinais EEG de 5 indiv��duos enquanto eles operam um simulador de realidade virtual n��o invasiva - que foi projetado para tal experimento - que simula a condu����o de um carro virtual. O protocolo experimental �� uma variante do paradigma da varia����o negativa contingente (CNV) com condi����es Go e No-go no sistema de condu����o de realidade virtual. Os resultados apresentados neste estudo indicam a presen��a de padr��es antecipat��rios em potenciais corticais lentos observados no dom��nio do tempo (medias dos sinais EEG) e da frequ��ncia (Power Spectra e coer��ncia de fase). Isso abre um leque de possibilidades no desenvolvimento de sistemas BCI - baseados em sinais antecipat��rios - que conectem o motorista ao veiculo inteligente favorecendo uma tomada de decis��o que analise as inten����es dos condutores podendo eventualmente evitar acidentes durante a condu����o.

Trajet��rias tecnol��gicas da ind��stria de telefonia m��vel: um exame prospectivo de tecnologias emergentes

Funda����o de Amparo �� Pesquisa do Estado de S��o Paulo (FAPESP)